By Rob Kall/-opednews.com
I recently did an interview with Staughton Lynd , who talks about the idea of accompanying vs. Organizing. Accompanying is more bottom up– empowering the people, rather than organizing and herding them– like most big unions do.
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- people without health insurance,
- people who are unemployed because the industry they worked for was destroyed by corporate globalization
- immigrants
- gay couples
- voters who can’t tell if their votes have really been counted by electronic machines.
- communities ravaged by corporate or military pollution
- arts and other non-profit organizations defunded so military contractors and bloated military budgets can be paid
- Students owing massive debt because education is not a priority and has been expensively privatized
- workers paid less than a living wage
- taxpayers who pay so much more relative to what the wealthy pay, such as social security, where no tax is paid over about $110,000 in income
- consumers who pay the costs of corporate welfare– for energy companies.
- taxpayers who pay what amounts to corporate welfare and risk insurance that allows banks to gamble and take risks without worrying that they might fail.
- personal investors who face an investment milieu where there is no risk of criminal prosecution, as Elizabeth Warren discovered when she asked bank regulators, “When did you last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial?”
- indigenous peoples
“Lewis Carroll reminds us in Through The Looking Glass, “Alice laughed. There’s no use trying,” she said, “One can’t believe impossible things!””I dare say you haven’t had much practice!” said the queen. “When I was your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and website architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), and publisher of Storycon.org, President of Futurehealth, Inc, and an inventor . He is also published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com